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Shares of JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) fell more than -8% on July 6th and since that day have lost a total of -20%. The reason for the fall was an amended filing which added information...
We have said it before… Some of the current initial public offerings with very low share floats and some of the valuations of these private (semi-public) companies are in some cases no different...
The market is soft, the economy hit a soft patch, and now woes are building about Italy beyond Greece, while China and India keep applying the brakes on growth.  This is taking the wind out of many...
Is California’s debt rating safe?  Or is in the same boat as Greece?  That depends upon whom you ask.  Meredith Whitney would probably say it is not safe.  Standard & Poor’s, however, is...
It was back in mid-May that we issued a call to arms for Americans to look into refinancing their mortgages if they missed the boat in 2010.  At the time, mortgage rates were under 4.50% for a...
24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of June. That and some...
TransUnion Corp. has filed for an initial public offering.  No terms have been set other than an offering of up to $325 million for filing purposes.  The credit analysis company has not even...
Banks were already having a good day, but a new ruling has come out from the Federal Reserve on interchange fees.  Maybe the proper description would be “less bad” of news.   Banks were...
Quantitative Easing, or QE, is a term that many investors were forced to understand.  Then came QE2 as an even more difficult pill to swallow.  After the FOMC or any central bank has taken rates to...
24/7 Wall St. has been conducting reviews looking for value stocks now that the market has softened.  Looking solely for “cheap stocks” on book value is very incomplete, so we have taken...
In 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Today, we don’t call people rich because that smacks of class warfare. Instead...
West Texas Intermediate Crude is bleeding today now that the IEA has made a coordinated release of 60 million barrels of oil.  Half of that will come from the United States and the rest from almost...
If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP)  should keep an eye on efforts to legalize...
Bill Ackman and his Pershing Square could soon become a much more formidable activist when it comes to dealing with companies.  Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) might have not been one of Ackman’s...
Gabelli & Co. has a unique research report out this morning and we took a look at this to see where the opportunity is.  Imagine that television stocks should still be winners after all the...